Jessica Hudson nuzzles one of her potbellied pigs Tuesday in the pen where she is raising pigs and goats in Williamstown Township.

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Will Kangas
Lansing State Journal

WILLIAMSTOWN TOWNSHIP -- Buoyed by thousands of dollars in donations from people around the country who believe in her cause, a Williamston Township mother of five is vowing to wage a legal battle to keep her small farm.

Jessica Hudson, 36, said $12,000 was pledged in a matter of days after reports of her dispute with the township over her farm animals began circulating on the Internet.

She hopes to receive a total of $20,000 in donations and enlist the help of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund so she can keep her goats, chickens, potbellied pigs and rabbits on her 1.5-acre Sweet Peas Farm at ...